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Committee advances bill to prioritize kinship placement and require written court findings
Summary
Senate Bill 171, which prioritizes relative and significant-relationship placements, limits unnecessary placement changes, and requires written judicial findings and a judicial-performance filter, was advanced by the committee after testimony urging additional clarifications and amendments.
Senate Bill 171 was presented to the Senate Family and Children Services committee as a package of changes intended to increase placement stability for children in the child-welfare system and to increase judicial transparency in dependency and juvenile cases.
Senator Johnson, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure focuses on family and juvenile law to improve permanency timelines and kinship placement, including a presumption recognizing significant existing relationships after 12 months and a request for clearer written court opinions. He also asked to remove a last-page judicial-administration disclosure provision from the bill language for further work, saying…
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